8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

The 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment was a Union Army cavalry regiment which was active from August 1861 to 24 July 1865. It was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the start of the American Civil War, and it was attached to the Army of the Potomac. It fought in the Peninsula Campaign, at the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Bristoe Campaign, the Mine Run Campaign, the Overland Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign, and it was mustered out of service in 1865.